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Undergraduate Awards & Scholarships

Please consider donating to Classics at the University of Arizona, to help ensure that our students continue to excel. To discuss opportunities for giving, please contact the Head of the Department, Dr. Karen Seat at kkseat@email.arizona.edu. You can donate online or download and submit our donation form (PDF). Thanks to our entire classics community for your support!

Other Departmental Awards

Financial Support for Language Study

The department is frequently able to offer support for students wishing to take intensive Greek or Latin language study in the summer or winter sessions. The number and amount of such awards vary year to year, and typically offers of support are contingent on students enrolling in the subsequent level of the language in the next semester. For more details, look on our news page, or check out the Greek Funding for Winter 2019 here.

Travel Grants

The department is frequently able to offer travel grants in support of students' study abroad plans that involve Classics coursework. The number and amount of such awards vary year to year. We currently offer grants based both on need and merit, and all students who are interested in studying abroad are encouraged to apply. Classics Majors, minors, and students enrolled in Greek or Latin language courses are usually given priority. For more details, look on our news page, or check out the 2019 grant details here.

Travel and Study in Italy Award

The Travel and Study in Italy Award will be given each year to a student pursuing a graduate or undergraduate degree in the Department of Classics at the University of Arizona. Awards will be made to students participating in academic travel in Italy and/or study abroad programs in Italy. For more information, contact Professor White at ckwhite@email.arizona.edu.

The awards of $1,000.00 are for majors and minors in our Classics B.A. program and for graduate students in the Classics M.A. program who seek to travel and/or study in Italy in connection with an academic program. We seek primarily to support students studying Greek and Latin literature and those preparing to teach K-12 Classics/Latin/Greek. To apply for the award, please submit a one-page letter detailing how you intend to use the award and one letter of recommendation to Professor White (ckwhite@email.arizona.edu).

The Classics Outstanding Undergraduate in Classics Award

The UA Department of Classics' Outstanding Undergraduate in Classics Award acknowledges high-level academic performance as well as excellence outside the classroom in the form of independent research and/or exemplary community service (by faculty nomination). List of Outstanding Undergraduate in Classics Award Winners

The Hellenic Cultural Foundation is an independent organization of the Greek community of Tucson. The HCF helped to found the Modern Greek Studies Program at the University of Arizona in 1984. In recent years, it has promoted excellence in the study of Greek language and culture (both ancient and modern) by offering annual scholarships to qualified students, who are enrolled in the Modern Greek Studies Program or are majoring in Ancient Greek Language or Civilization. Application forms are available in the departmental office of the Department of Classics; for the 2012-13 HCF Scholarship Announcement, click here.

Open to graduate and advanced undergraduate students. There are two summer sessions every year: Session I begins about the end of the first week of June and lasts two weeks, and Session II begins about the third week of June and lasts about six weeks.